Lockdown Life

So I've not blogged in a looong time, but I like the idea of getting back into it...let's see how long that lasts!

I should probably say another hello, so, hey!

I'm Becky, I'm 31, I live in a little town in Derbyshire with my partner and two bunnies. I'm a lover of mid-century style, animals, tea and cake, and handwritten letters.  I'm a self employed artist and photographer, primarily shooting weddings, and taking arty commissions in between!

It's going to be a lifestyle blog with a mix of things from general day-to-day musings on life, travel diaries, reviews, vintage fashion stuff, and some art related bits n' bobs.

I figured lockdown was probably a good topic to start with, document these crazy times! 



I know I'm in quite a privileged place to be able to say this, but I have to admit I've found a lot of positives in lockdown, and I know when I spoke to friends in the first half of it they agreed. Life's been so stripped back and I've liked it.
Our little walks with no one else about, just blue skies and the sound of birds, having so much free time which lead to me having a real bout of creative inspiration and producing more arty bits in a short period than I had in a long time. My other half initiated a conversation of 'so how much do we *actually* need to work to bring enough money in?' after a few weeks of lockdown. I think a lot of us have maybe realised after all this that maybe we would rather earn a bit less and work less. I know I have and I'm happy to maybe take less weddings in exchange for having more time to create, to draw, to write, and anything else. Life goes so fast, and when my Dad told me years ago that it just goes faster as you get older, he wasn't lying! So we really do need to make the most of the time we have. 
I do enjoy my job, shooting weddings and captures so much loveliness, but I also don't want it to be my main thing in life and taking up the most of my time.

I was lucky in that most people's main livelihood worry during this time, the money aspect, hasn't been too bad for me as I was thankfully able to claim a self employment grant from the government.

As a wedding photographer, of course my job was affected in that all my weddings lined up for the Summer have moved to next year. Thankfully I only 'lost' one, due to me not being able to do their new date due to already having a booking. But I've embraced this time off, as in a career path where you get booked so far in advance, it's very hard to plan such a large period of time off! So I've embraced it and enjoyed it.

My other half and I have taken lockdown seriously and we were probably one of the first people I knew to buy ourselves some fabric masks for our big supermarket shops. Even then, we'd go at the quietest time possible just before closing when there was hardly anyone there. I was amazed that it took so long for masks to be made a legal requirement.

At first, like most of us, I thought this was just an exaggerated cold/only a concern for the elderly and those with underlying illnesses, but of course it eventually became evident that that wasn't the case, and it's been highly frustrating to discover so many people continue to behave in an incredibly selfish way rather than taking things seriously and wanting to work together in this.

I'm quite anxious about things going totally back to 'normal'. Of course there are things I miss (like date nights to the cinema after a little trip to the Harvester nearby and their all you can eat salad bit), but overall, I'm gonna miss a lot of this stripped back life.  


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